Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 2 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 3 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
| 4 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |
| 5 | ( It was at this time , I think , that she told me that her own mother , means-tested in the late twenties , had won the sympathy of the relieving officer , who ignored the presence of the saleable piano because she kept a clean house , with a cloth on the table . ) |
| 6 | Such was her dislike of maths by this stage that she told me : |
| 7 | Aunt Louise told me , but there was some kind of confusion in that she told me that he was due last Friday . " |
| 8 | Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’ |
| 9 | So anything I could offer that would be nice , oh she said I do n't know , now , but I 'll tell you when you come this afternoon and so that she told me there was around five or six o'clock and it was too late so I said well I 'll go on Monday morning , but they er were all closed on Monday morning . |
| 10 | and I know something that she told me about you that I know that she do n't , she do n't know that I , I know that , you do n't know that , I know |
| 11 | Not that she saw me teased , but even now I can give her back you know |
| 12 | I always felt that she cut me off just as we were becoming closer — and always when I most needed her . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
| 14 | I did n't really understand what she was saying , but I could see that she despised me . |
| 15 | I still had a formless feeling that she understood me where my mother did not . |
| 16 | Whatever it was , I could no longer complain that she treated me more like a brother than a lover . |
| 17 | It would n't be difficult to show that she wished me ill . |
| 18 | I prayed that she would intercede for us , and show us her grace , and it came to me that she heard me , and that she willed to do us good . |
| 19 | I learned that , like Jane Austen , she was an ASROG ( Abbey School Reading Old Girl ) , though it was not until years later that she sent me these scraps from a diary kept during her schooldays . |
| 20 | ‘ She is n't important , never was important — except that she gave me a chance to get close to you again . ’ |
| 21 | She was so exhausted that she let me help her without protesting , and finally we sat down together near the fire with our cups of tea . |
| 22 | But , because she knew nothing of the business , I insisted that she let me handle things . |
| 23 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 24 | She was fond of me — she would automatically agree , as if the matter were n't worth discussing , that she loved me — but she unquestioningly believed the best about me . |
| 25 | It pleases me that she called me my darling and not my little prodigy as she once did ; this is the best sign yet that I am winning her back . |
| 26 | Encouraging me to follow in this way perhaps , but moving too fast for me to believe that she wanted me to do that , she entered a revolving door of dark polished wood , mahogany and glass , and started to go round and round , looking out at me as she turned . |
| 27 | B H did , she used to say school run Tuesday evening , do n't make any fun , she used to block it out , the time that she wanted me to see me . |
| 28 | On one occasion I remember that she promoted me very briefly for the space of an entire morning . |
| 29 | ‘ The upshot was , though , that she turned me down . |
| 30 | I 'm doing everything that you told me to do . |